Say Anything Blog

Now that Google is hinting at an online storage solution (to possibly be called Gdrive), I see the privacy zealots are already atwitter.  Which I don’t understand.

I mean, it isn’t like Google is forcing us to use this new online storage product.  If you’re afraid of Google going through personal stuff you have stored on their servers, then don’t store your personal stuff on their servers.  Back when Gmail was shiny and new these same people made noise about privacy then, but that hasn’t stopped just about everyone I know from having a Gmail account anyway.  It’s all about choice.  Just as most concerns about what is and is not decent to be on television can be solved by simply changing the channel (or turning the TV off), privacy concerns can be solved by not using products you don’t feel adequately protect your privacy.

Plus, it’s not like you have to use this new storage space for your bank account numbers or anything.  You know what I use online storage for (I use Amazon’s S3 service)?  A backup for my music, photos, articles and this blog.  And you know what?  If someone at Amazon wants to sit around looking at my vacation photos while listening to my Old Crow Medicine Show tracks, they’re welcome to it.

I’ll keep the stuff I don’t want them seeing somewhere else.